The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-02-24
A EssoN WITH A MORAL.
When Will Our Eyes be Opened
to This Great National
Calamity?

The year 1886 played sad havoc with
many prominent men of our country.
Many of them died without warning,
passing away apparently in the full flush
of life.
Others were sick but a comparatively
short time. We'turn to our files and are
astonished to find that most of them died
of appoplexy, of paralysis, of nervous
prostration, of malignant blood humor,
of Bright's disease, of heart disease, of
kidney disease, of rheumatism or of pneu
monia.
1t is singular that most of our promi-
nent men die of these disorders. Any
journalist, who watches the telegraph re-
ports, will be astonished at the number of
prominent victims of these disorders.
Many statements have appeared IN our
paper with others to the effect that the
diseases that carried off so many prominent
men in 1886 are really one disease, taking
different names according to the location
of the fatal effects.
When a valuable horse perishes it be-
comes the nine days talk of the sporting
world, and yet thousands of the ordinary
horses are dying every day, their aggre-
gate loss is enormous, and yet their death
creates no comment.
So it is with individuals. The cause of
death of prominent men creates comment,
especially when it can be shown that one
unsupported disease carries off most of
them, and yet "vast numbers of ordinary
men and women die before their time
every year from the same cause"
1t is said if the blood is kept free from
uric acid that heart disease, paralysis,
nervous prostration, pneumonia, rheuma-
tism and many cases of consumption,
would never be known. This uric acid,
we are told, is the waste of the system,
and it is the duty of the kidneys to re-
move this waste.
We are told that, if the kidneys are
maintained in perfect health, the uric,
kidney, acid is kept out of the blood, and
these sudden and universal diseases caused
by uric acid will, in a large measure, dis
appear.
But how shall this be done? 1t is folly
to treat effects. If there is any known
way of getting at the cause
that way should be known to
the public. We believe that
Warmers safe cure, of which SO
MUCH mas D6eu WTlUuCl, oO hiuSi
talked of by the public generally, is now
recognized by impartial physicians and
the public as the one specific for such
diseases.
Because public attention has been di-
rected to this great remedy by means of
advertising, some persons have not be-
lieved in the remedy. We cannot see how
Mr. Warner could Immediately benefit the
public in any other way, and his valuable
specific should not be condemned because
some nostrums have come before the pub
lie in the same way, any more than that
all doctors should be condemned because
so many of them are incompetent.
1t is astonishing what good opinions
you hear on every side, of that great rem
edy, and public opinion, thus based upor
an actual experience, has all the weight
and Importance of absolute truth.
At this time of the year the uric acid IN
the blood invites pneumonia and rheuma'
tism, and there is not man who does not
dread these monsters of disease; but he
need have no fear of them, we are told, II
he rid the blood of the uric acid cause.
These words are strong and may sount
like an advertisement, and be rejected al
such by unthinking people, but we believe
they are the truth, and as such should b
spoken by every truth-loving newspaper